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Outwardly, twenty-six year old Rebecca's life seems great, as witnessed by her recent promotion to junior partner at the prestigious New York City law firm where she works. But she knows she isn't happy, as she once tried to commit suicide while in college, is on a plethora of prescription medications to deal with her anxiety, and her whole life has been spent on her career primarily at the urging of her controlling mother. It isn't until she runs into Josh Chan, who she hasn't seen in ten years, they who dated at summer camp that year and he who broke up with her at the end of camp, that she realizes that what would make her happy is being with Josh. The problem is is that he, after living in New York for eight months and not being able to make it there, has decided to go home to West Covina, California, where he says everyone is "happy". So Rebecca decides to be happy by declining the promotion and packing up and moving to West Covina on the premise that she has a job there, while ...
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Rebecca and her new best friend Paula go on a search for Josh, frequenting where he is known to go, while Paula discloses why she feels a connection to Rebecca. Their joint focus on Rebecca's love life may pose problems at work, that is unless Rebecca can show that her Harvard law degree is worth its reputation. Their new BFF status is threatened when Rebecca does eventually run into Josh, his girlfriend Valencia, and by happenstance Greg while she is out alone without Paula. Despite Josh's coded message to her not to get too close and not to disclose the nature of their summer together, Rebecca does whatever she can to get to know Valencia to get closer to Josh. What she learns about Valencia besides being a beautiful woman, is that she is a yoga instructor, is controlling, is jealous by nature, and has no women friends in her belief that other women find her too threatening. Rebecca also eventually learns that Josh and Valencia have been a couple for a long time, even before Rebecca...
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Seeing the butter commercial again that was part of the reason she left New York to go to West Covina, Rebecca, on the verge of making yet another big mistake, decides that she needs to make healthier choices in life in all its aspects, including becoming a vegan. Finding out about Rebecca's new life choices, Greg, who knows that Rebecca is probably not the "healthiest" choice for him but yet who cannot stop thinking about her, decides to ask her out yet again in that healthier option of her not pining over attached Josh. Rebecca has to decide if she will go out with Greg - which has its pluses and minuses with respect to the possibility of Josh being in her romantic future - and if she does how much she will allow herself to enjoy her healthier than pining for Josh choice. Meanwhile, Josh, after going away on a short vacation with Valencia, realizes that he has to find a job to make money, with the last resort working with his father in the radiation lab. And Heather, who is open to ...
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Seeing them out together, Greg accuses both Rebecca and Josh of being terrible people, Rebecca because she slept with another man while Greg and Rebecca were on a date, and Josh because he continually hangs out with Rebecca despite he knowing that Valencia doesn't like it. Rebecca comes to the eventual realization that she cares what Greg thinks because she considers him to be her moral compass. So she goes to great lengths to prove to him that she is indeed a nice person. Beyond throwing lots of money at certain world "problems", Rebecca decides that her grand gesture of niceness is finally to agree to represent Darryl in his legal battle against his soon to be ex-wife Stacy for custody of their daughter, Madison. Rebecca has to decide how far she will go to get what she believes Darryl wants while still coming across as a nice person. Paula ends up being a tangential beneficiary in the process. Meanwhile, Josh takes what Greg says to heart in reviewing his feelings toward Rebecca. ...
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It's a couple of days before Thanksgiving. Rebecca's Thanksgiving plans are to head back to New York and spend the day with her mother as usual, despite it feeling more like an obligation than a want. But when Rebecca learns from Josh that Valencia generally has Thanksgiving dinner with the extended Chan family and from Greg and Chris that Josh's stereotypically Asian parents don't like Valencia because they don't see her as being smart, Paula not only convinces Rebecca to try and wrangle an invitation to the Chan family Thanksgiving dinner, but sets in motion a plan to get that invitation without telling Rebecca about the plan until it is well under way. Paula figures that Rebecca can wow the Chans as she is everything that they would want in a daughter-in-law, and is everything that Valencia is not, especially in a direct comparison. The plan to get the invitation works. The questions become if Rebecca can dazzle the Chans as is the second part of the plan, if so if Mr. and Mrs. ...
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Paula is irked that Rebecca spent Thanksgiving with Greg instead of Josh, and that she is happy about Josh and Valencia moving in together, Rebecca having even bought them the meaningful house warming gift of a rice cooker to bridge their two cultures. But an incident makes Rebecca come to the realization that she isn't really as happy about Josh and Valencia as she had made out. Against the advice of the hallucination of Dr. Phil, Rebecca decides the best way to make herself feel better is to self-medicate. As she threw away all her prescription anti-anxiety medications, she does whatever she needs to to get whatever drugs she can to replace those, which may end up getting her into deeper trouble. Her anxiety issues come at a bad time professionally as Calvin Young, the biggest potential client Whitefeather has ever had, is in southern California from his hometown of Tuscon specifically on a real estate lawyer shopping trip. But it may be Paula, and not Rebecca, who could be the ...
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It's the December holiday season. Because Rebecca didn't go back to New York to spend Thanksgiving with her mother who has controlled most everything that has happened in her life up until she moved to West Covina, her mother decides to come to West Covina for Hanukkah. Rebecca doesn't want to admit that she still is a "mom pleaser", doing everything in her power to make her mother happy. But Rebecca does admit that she wants the family heirloom of the Garfinkel ring for what it means. It is passed down through the female lineage of her family, that transfer which was supposed to happen when Rebecca was eighteen as a sign of becoming a mature adult, but her mother who did not feel she was ready at that time for the responsibility. Rebecca will have to decide how far she will go to please her mother on the expectation that she came to West Covina now in part to go through with the family ritual. Meanwhile, Josh is lamenting no longer being a kid, as he misses the fun that kids have at ...
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Paula refuses to help Rebecca get out of her continual messes until she stops being in denial about being in love with Josh. The latest example of that denial in Paula's eyes is that Rebecca tries to infiltrate Josh's group of friends not because she wants to be closer to Josh, but because she wants to be within a community of friends and she sees Josh's friends as her friends. Regardless of if Valencia has ulterior motives - which she does - Rebecca is buoyed when Valencia invites her along with Josh's friends on their weekend outing to the beach. In her want to impress Josh's friends and especially Josh in being within the group, Rebecca decides on a grand gesture of renting a party bus for their trip without telling them beforehand. In the confined space of the bus on what is generally the four hour trip to the beach (two without traffic), Rebecca will discover whether Josh's friends truly are her friends. It also provides a backdrop for Josh and his friends, especially Greg, to ...
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Now that Rebecca is no longer in denial about being in love with Josh, Paula believes Rebecca can get back on track in her true pursuit of him as her boyfriend. The next opportunity Paula and Rebecca see is when Josh mentions that he volunteers as a counselor for underprivileged youth who are going on their overnight camp, and Rebecca being there also as a counselor to rekindle the memories of when they dated at camp ten years ago. It would especially show up Valencia, who doesn't like Josh doing this volunteering, she who would rather him work extra hours to make more money. Although they don't need any extra counselors, Rebecca is able to bribe her way in to the overnight camp, she who will be providing a mandatory seminar for the young women on female empowerment. Against Paula's advice, Rebecca also hopes to read to Josh a love letter she wrote to him ten years ago at camp but never got a chance to give to him in his hasty departure. Rebecca will find if the magic from ten years ...
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In the flush of love just having recently run into Josh, Rebecca sends Paula a text to confirm how much she loves Josh, the text sent during a deposition meeting where Rebecca and Paula are in attendance with the judge, the two clients and the opposing lawyer. When Paula motions to Rebecca that she didn't receive the text, Rebecca finds that she mistakenly sent the text to Josh instead. An initially horrified Rebecca remembers that Josh left his phone at home while he went out to his tae kwon do class, and that Valencia also has back-to-back yoga classes, meaning that to save herself from Josh seeing the text, she has to break into their apartment, find Josh's phone and figure out his password to delete the text before either Josh or Valencia make it home in about three hours. First, however, Rebecca has to get out of the deposition meeting, which may not be as easy as she hopes...or is it? Rebecca has to decide how far she will go to delete the text while not being caught. Regardless...
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It's been two weeks since the "break-in" at Rebecca's apartment, and Josh has not been in contact with her at all, making her think that perhaps she has lost him forever this time. Even though Paula's latest scheme to get Rebecca and Josh together, which involves Rebecca telling Josh that she has started dating an old colleague from Harvard, does have the intended promised effect of getting the two of them together for dinner, it doesn't quite turn out the way Paula had envisioned. However, Rebecca, Paula and Mrs. Hernandez simultaneously come up with a brainchild for which they just have to flesh out the details: Rebecca has to manufacture something for which she will be Josh's lawyer, so that they would have to spend time together. Rebecca comes up with a legal issue which she doesn't even have to manufacture, and that would play up to Valencia's thirst for Josh to make more money. While the case expands into ways Rebecca did not envision for good and bad, she finds that there are ...
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Rebecca's current Paula-directed plan to be with Josh has the potential to fall apart when Valencia and Greg, wanting to catch her in a lie, confront her with Trent Maddock, her Harvard classmate who is supposed to be her new boyfriend. Despite not having seen Rebecca since their Harvard days, Trent willingly goes along with Rebecca's ruse, he who has his own ulterior motives in doing so which he makes quite clear to her in the process. Rebecca has no option but to keep Trent around, he who could still prove useful in other ways. With Bert's information in hand, Rebecca and the legal team proceed with a class action lawsuit in which they have to mobilize the residents of neighboring communities within the San Gabriel Valley to sue Greater City Water. She learns that Greater City Water has hired a high powered New York law firm with the lead lawyer being her childhood nemesis, Audra Levine, who has the job for which Rebecca was considered before moving to West Covina, which makes the ...
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Rebecca and gang are living through what would be act 2 of a **½ rom-com. Following Rebecca and Josh's passionate kiss, Josh runs off, leaving Rebecca wondering what it all means. In Josh's eyes, it means that he is conflicted, but knows what he did was wrong, both because he is in a committed relationship with Valencia, and Rebecca supposedly with Trent. Josh contemplates coming clean to Valencia, believing that she would break up with him if he does. All he knows is that he can have a respite of sorts in that he is scheduled to fly to Maui to support Hector in a surfing competition, during which time he can get some perspective on the situation. When Rebecca learns all this information, she turns again to Paula, who only knows that Rebecca has to be on the same flight as Josh to Hawaii, all else be damned. Rebecca getting on that flight hits a snag when she learns that she has let one rather important aspect of her life get out of control, which if she does not fix will not get her ...
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Realizing that her life in West Covina is nothing as she outwardly thought it was going to be, Rebecca, rather than hop on a plane to Hawaii with Josh as was her original plan, has instead hopped on a plane to New York City to resume her old life, with a guarantee of her old job if she wants it. Coincidentally, the person sitting next to her on the plane is Dr. Akopian, who she has not seen since her first failed therapy session months ago. With five hours on a plane together, Dr. Akopian suggests they attempt a real therapy session with their time, to which Rebecca agrees. Rebecca sees her primary problem as being a failure in the area of love, especially romantic love. On this topic, Rebecca finds that her session with Dr. Akopian is nothing as she rationally thought. Meanwhile, Paula finds out that Josh has not gone to Hawaii and as such Rebecca is probably not on her way to Hawaii as she thought. Others in Rebecca's close social circle also find out as they try to find out what ...
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Following Rebecca's "therapy" session with dream Dr. Akopian, she realizes that she has to make healthier choices in life, most specifically not obsessing over Josh. This revelation is timely as she is able to tell Josh that she did indeed have feelings for him when he finds her photo roll of him. Rebecca thinks she should get some distance from him, which is difficult when Josh's sister Jayma asks Rebecca to be one of her bridesmaids. However, Rebecca ultimately believes it is a good opportunity in making amends to Josh and Valencia by getting Jayma also to ask Valencia to be in the bridal party while truly making Valencia a shining star in the Chans' eyes as their future in-law. To do so, Rebecca will have to get over Valencia's mistrust and hatred of her while not falling into her old traps of doing everything to be with Josh. Rebecca's new outlook doesn't sit well with Paula, who has always come to Rebecca's rescue in the Josh matter, and which she feels she needs to this time as ...
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Now that Rebecca and Greg are having sex with each other, they have to figure out what it all means. The balance of power in their relationship may also shift because of it. Most people around them know that both are getting it and most that see the two of them together know that they are doing it with each other. Josh is somewhat in denial about it, as he is feeling pressure from Valencia to get married as they deal with Josh's sister's wedding. The one person who has not seen the two of them together is Paula, who knows that Rebecca is getting some, which she is perfectly fine with in the state of what is happening between her and Josh, as long as that person with who she is getting it is not Greg. As such, Rebecca has to decide what exactly to tell Paula. Rebecca and Paula also have to figure out what will replace Rebecca getting together with Josh as the focus of their friendship. Although they may try to fill that void, a question becomes whether that issue can sustain their ...
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Now that both Josh and Paula have found out that Rebecca is sleeping with Greg, they have to redefine their respective relationships with Rebecca, if at all. Paula in particular sees Rebecca not telling her directly about Greg being a betrayal to their friendship, especially as Paula reveals just how much behind the scenes work she did to get Rebecca together with Josh. As Rebecca is now unavailable, Josh believes he has to take the next logical step with Valencia, especially as they have been a couple for fifteen years, but he wants to do it on his own terms instead of Valencia pressuring him to ask her officially. Insecure Greg begins to overthink his relationship with Rebecca, he contemplating playing the games he usually does despite what seems to be his true feelings for her. All these relationships have the potential to come to a head at Jayma's wedding reception, the spirit of the occasion which gives each the idea to profess their true feelings to the one they love,... or ...
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It's been three weeks since Jayma's wedding, the night when Rebecca and Josh had sex for the first time. Since, Rebecca and Josh have continued a sexual relationship, and Josh has been staying with Rebecca as he has left what was his and Valencia's apartment to her. But things between Rebecca and Josh are not totally all right as after their sexual encounters, Josh spends the rest of the night on Rebecca's sofa, he admitting to himself that staying at Rebecca's is more a move out of necessity as he can't stay with any of his other friends, going home to his parents is an even less desirable option, and he doesn't have the money to live on his own. Although Rebecca tries to convince herself that she was able to talk her way out of the admission to Josh that she moved to West Covina for him, Paula knows that that is the crux of the problem, i.e. the reason Josh feels compelled to sleep on the couch. Although Rebecca told Josh that she and Greg are over as couple, Josh believes Greg is *...
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Despite Josh unofficially living with her, Rebecca still looks for opportunities to spend time with him, especially as he seems to be doing things with his guy friends doing what are usually considered stereotypical twenty-something guy things. So when Josh says he is spending this upcoming Friday with his friends, Rebecca decides to hound in on the outing, pretending to like doing such guy things, which is the furthest thing from the truth. She takes the lie one step further when she learns the outing is to a new table tennis cocktail bar, ping pong which she claims to once being an expert at. Not wanting to be caught in the lie, Rebecca goes on a crash course to learn the game,... all the while looking hot for Josh while doing it. Meanwhile, Greg believes that the worst is now behind him with his drinking, as he is religiously attending his AA meetings. He doesn't realize however that things that happen in his everyday life may throw his sobriety out the window. Learning of Greg's ...
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Because Rebecca is torn between being with Josh and being with Greg, she, in her romanticized view of the world, believes that she should be in a thruple with them. Learning that polyamory is not a default for not being able to choose - especially as she has not cleared anything with either Josh or Greg - she looks for a definitive sign of whether she is destined to be with Josh or Greg, she believing that her destiny is to be with one of the two of them as opposed to any other alternative. This search for the sign is despite the professional advice she receives about the reality of her situation. After receiving what she thinks are a series of small signs pointing her equally in both directions, she receives what she thinks is the definitive sign. The issues are whether it was a sign at all, and even if it was whether signs that others involved in her fantasy receive are compatible with Rebecca's. One of those opposing signs relates to Greg, who is given an opportunity which would ...
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With both Josh and Greg having broken up with her, the latter who has moved away to Atlanta to go to school, Rebecca, in a deep funk and unable to forget about either of them, takes what ends up being an extreme action which ends up badly for her. To overcome what she knows are the negative repercussions of those actions, she, based partly on a meeting with a client, decides what she needs to do to regain her self-esteem is to rebrand herself. How to go about that rebranding surprises those that know her, with the question still remaining if that rebranding will achieve what Rebecca wants. Through the process, she gets to see Heather's home life up close and personal, something she has not done - more out of a sense of being self-absorb than anything - the entire time she has known and lived next door to Heather. Meanwhile, Paula has decided not to tell Rebecca about her pregnancy if only in not wanting to burden her best friend while she is going through this crisis concerning her ...
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After seeing Valencia at the boba stand stuffing her face with carbs, something that the old Valencia would never have done in taking care of her physical self, Rebecca believes that she and Valencia have been affected the same way by their respective break-ups with Josh. Despite the advice to the contrary from Heather due to Valencia's hatred of Rebecca, Rebecca, referring to a self-empowerment book called "Blood and Lice", believes that she and Valencia have to bond doing something primal together. After hearing about it from Darryl who will be attending with regular attendee White Josh, Rebecca chooses as that primal event Electric Mesa, San Gabriel Valley's answer to Burning Man. Using some coercion, Rebecca is able to get Valencia to the event. As they spend time together, they may or may not bond, but they may at least be able to deal with a small part of the affect of Josh on their respective lives. Meanwhile, Josh is feeling a bit lost himself without a significant other in ...
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Rebecca and Heather have moved into their new house, one that has a mysterious past of which they are unaware. With Rebecca and Valencia now having bonded over their respective pasts with Josh, Rebecca, Valencia and Heather have formed an official "gurl" clique as the brainy one, the sexy one and the cool one respectively, this gurl grouping which is unfamiliar territory for all of them. However, in Rebecca's mind, Paula is the missing gurl, she who Rebecca tries to bring into the fold by inviting her, Valencia and Heather to a themed party at the house, without telling Paula that it will not just be the two of them for the evening, without telling Valencia and Heather that she invited Paula, and without telling any of the three that the party has this special theme. Beyond the as so far unspoken issues between Rebecca and Paula potentially coming to the surface, one unexpected occurrence after another colors the nature of the party. Meanwhile, Darryl and Maya, between who there has ...
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When Rebecca and Valencia decide to investigate the new girl Anna that Josh has been dating, they discover way more than they bargained for...
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Paula faces some turmoil in her home life, with no one to turn to to provide her any emotional support. When Rebecca finally learns what is going on with Paula, Rebecca senses an opportunity to get back in good with Paula first by issuing an unconditional apology and second by offering to look after precocious preteen Tommy for two days while Paula heads out of town for a class field trip, both items from Rebecca which Paula accepts. Despite having no kids of her own, Rebecca figures that taking care of Tommy will be the easiest two days of her life, which ends up not being the case. Things get even more complicated when out shopping, Rebecca and Tommy run into Josh, this encounter the first time Rebecca and Josh have seen each other since they broke up. Knowing that Josh is facing a minor issue in his life, Rebecca decides to make a grand gesture to get in good with Josh again. As Josh goes through something monumental in his life which he wants to share with Anna, Rebecca faces a ...
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Following Rebecca and Josh posting all over social media that they are in a relationship, several of their friends and confidantes believe that they are being delusional not only in the strength of that commitment, but that the other is the panacea to all their life problems. They will be spending the weekend in Scarsdale to attend Rebecca's cousin Skyler's bar mitzvah. They will be staying with Rebecca's mother, Naomi, who has always been openly critical of Josh. Rebecca's expectation for the weekend is that she will be able to show Josh what a terrible life she had in New York - the problems largely caused by Naomi, and the family rabbi, Shari - with he confirming that belief yet making everything better in light of that past. Valencia in particular is skeptical that Josh can fulfill the role Rebecca wants of him, and not only for the weekend. Everyone around Rebecca for the weekend may surprise her, and not always in a good way. Meanwhile, Darryl knows that he made a mistake in ...
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When the Santa Ana winds blow into town, they cause everyone in West Covina to act a little strangely and question their relationships and priorities...
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On the surface, everything seems to be going perfectly now for Rebecca and Josh's wedding to be the dream she's always envisioned, the ceremony which is taking place in a couple of days. She sees the wedding and associated marriage as the answer to all her problems. Valencia has taken over and thus freed Rebecca from the planning. Both Rebecca's parents are in West Covina, her father's presence in particular which she believes is the beginning of a new relationship between the two of them, and in the process negating the fact that he not only abandoned her when she was a child but purposefully has remained out of her life until now. And most importantly she is marrying Josh, the man for who she moved to West Covina, with the ceremony to take place at the core of West Covina identity: next to the beach. Some of those that know Rebecca and Josh hope that they can overcome their individual issues to make the marriage a success, while others foresee disaster as two people who are not ...
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Following the wedding that didn't happen, Rebecca goes missing without Paula even knowing where she is. When Rebecca finally emerges two weeks later, she does so with a new look and a new outlook on life, especially concerning her vow at the wedding about Josh. The girl squad - Paula, Valencia and Heather - are there for her, but the three have to decide how far to let Rebecca run with what are half baked ideas coming from a clearly not thinking Rebecca. During Rebecca's return, Nathaniel's action are meant to seem casual but end up being more obvious than he wants. Meanwhile, Scott is willing to jump through all the hoops that Paula has placed for him for them to repair their marriage to the point that she will allow him back into their bed. Paula is surprised not so much by the final outcome but by something that happens in the aftermath of that outcome. And Darryl and White Josh's relationship hits a crossroads as Darryl forces the issue of having a child together. This crossroads ...
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All her attempts and those of her friends to destroy Josh's life, either actually carried out or only suggested, has left Rebecca feeling oddly unfulfilled. She believes it's because none of those plans has been nasty enough. So she turns to who she believes is the nastiest person she knows to come up with a suitable plan: Nathaniel. Although she knows that Nathaniel is at a point in his emotions that he would probably do anything that she asked, she is unaware that he has made a vow to himself to return to his old self in being cold-hearted, especially toward Rebecca, not wanting her to play into his emotions. Rebecca does offer him a proposition to help her, it being something that he may not be able to resist. Through the process, Rebecca may come to a realization of what she actually wants to achieve in destroying Josh. Meanwhile, Josh learns what it will take to become a priest, those steps which are far outside what he would consider fun, as opposed to what was his vision solely...
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After the initial rush and exhilaration of telling Josh off at the church, Rebecca realizes that she told him everything, information that he could use to incriminate her against everyone she knows. Her anxiety kicks into high gear, it manifesting itself in she having herself to who to talk. Her alter ego informs her that that incriminating information would be worth even more to Josh if she goes through with the lawsuit. So she has to figure out a way to stop Paula from working on it without telling her the real reason why. Things take a turn when Rebecca learns that Josh is leaving seminary school and returning to West Covina, she assuming he planning on telling everyone everything he knows. So Rebecca and her alter ego resort to Plan B, which may have a more devastating effect on Josh if it succeeds. On the other side, Josh contemplates going to the unknown, the question in this case being whether he has the nerve to find out what that unknown is. Elsewhere, Nathaniel does not want...
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In feeling that her friends are ganging up on her in the revelation about her past life with Robert, Rebecca goes into hiding. In hiding, Rebecca, stemming from a discussion with who will be her new confidante, Jarl, a movie buff, especially of the movies of Danish-Americans who have made it big in Hollywood, Rebecca goes on a new mission with regard to Josh. The question in her matter becomes how far she will go to achieve her goal, and if Josh, who is trying to return to some normalcy and stability in his life, will realize what Rebecca is doing before it's too late. Rebecca's friends, knowing that she is in trouble, go on a search for her. In the process, they each have the time to digest Rebecca's vitriolic words to them, which they know were said in the heat of the moment of a proverbial "caged animal", but which had a grain of truth underneath the vitriol.
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Feeling like the life as she has known it in West Covina is totally destroyed, Rebecca, invited by her mother on Paula's plea of which Rebecca is unaware, retreats to Scarsdale with no outward plan for her future. As such, Naomi decides to take control of her daughter's life, which means working toward getting Rebecca's old New York life back for her, however unhappy and messed up Rebecca was in that life. When Naomi secretly learns Rebecca's true intention, Naomi has to come up with a Plan B. Meanwhile, Nathaniel has no choice but to hire someone to fill the vacancy left by Rebecca's absence, that lawyer being Cornelia Wigfield. Those in the office that felt they had some affinity with Rebecca transfer those feelings to Cornelia regardless of how alike or more unalike Cornelia is to Rebecca. The one person who tries to resist the urge to see Cornelia as a trigger to feelings of Rebecca is Nathaniel himself. One other person who is not party to these office goings-on is Paula, who, in...
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Rebecca is recovering in the hospital under the joint care of Dr. Akopian and a doctor new to her case, Dr. Daniel Shin. She is buoyed to hear from Dr. Shin that he, in consultation with Dr. Akopian who Rebecca implicitly trusts, believes she has been misdiagnosed, and that he will discuss his diagnosis and its treatment, which does not center on medication, with her at their first out patient session. Her euphoria turns one hundred eighty degrees when she hears the diagnosis and doesn't follow what Dr. Shin tells her to do, or more specifically what not to do. She has to figure out how to handle this new information in its entirety. Meanwhile, each member of the girl group, and by association Hector in his new role as Heather's boyfriend, has largely self-appointed herself in a specific set of tasks in this tenuous time for Rebecca. In the process, Valencia in particular may come to a realization why she is dealing with her task in the way she is. Beyond what Rebecca tried to do, Nathaniel is having a difficult time trying to process his emotions over the situation. He eventually believes he understands why he is feeling the way he is and requires some answers from his closed parents, most specifically his mother, regarding an incident from his childhood to deal with it properly. And Josh feels like he is the cause of Rebecca's problems and wants to make amends regardless of the fact that no one else seems to think he doing anything for Rebecca, especially at this time, is such a good idea.
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Rebecca goes overboard again, this time in the homework she does under therapy with Dr. Shin. In response, Dr. Shin wants her to dial-it-down to find some joy back in life. Elsewhere, Paula finds that in her effort to be more of a wife and mother, that her family has worked out a routine without her in the expectation that she will soon enough again find something else on which to focus her energies, whether it be Rebecca or someone/something else. As such, Paula reluctantly decides to oblige her mother's request to go back to Buffalo - while she herself needs to be out of town - to take care of Paula's recuperating alcoholic redneck father, Bob O'Brien, with who Paula does not get along. Rebecca tags along in the thought of the fun of hanging out with her best friend. However, things don't go quite as either Paula or Rebecca thought in Buffalo as Rebecca bonds with Bob while she figures out what fun she can or cannot have under therapy, while Paula, without telling either her father or Rebecca, reconnects with who she considers her Josh Chan, namely her first boyfriend, Jeff Channington. Meanwhile, Josh is feeling at a loss of what to do with his life after no longer considering the priesthood and being laid off from the electronics store, as he has no idea what it truly means to be a grown-up. He ultimately accepts Kevin's offer to tend bar at Home Base, which Josh believes will be only like the fun times in Cocktail (1988). And Madison can perhaps see more clearly than either the two of them that if her father and White Josh cannot bridge the gap that is the baby discussion, there may be no better option for them than to break up.
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Rebecca and Nathaniel are reaching the stage of being official boyfriend/girlfriend. As such, Rebecca, in the flush of new love, wants to get to know Nathaniel better than just having him be her friend with benefits, and with that information wants to do something extra special for him in a meaningful way. Despite the warnings from Dr. Shin and the others with whom she attends group therapy, Rebecca may not fully comprehend that what she is doing and is planning on doing in being Nathaniel's girlfriend borders on her past history that led to her suicide attempt, with only the name and face having changed. Meanwhile, Josh is at a crossroads in that his mother has asked him to move out, the process of cleaning out his closet symbolic to that crossroads. But Josh may be more focused on the cause of that crossroads than the process. And in the aftermath of his break-up with White Josh, Darryl is still going full steam ahead with having a baby, he deciding on surrogacy. In her excitement about what he is doing and in his confusion, Paula volunteers to be his "shopper" for the egg donor out of the several women listed in the surrogacy clinic's catalog. Paula has only one person picked - catalog number 456H76 - there being no second option. When problems arise in getting an egg from 456H76, Paula does whatever she can to get one of her eggs for Darryl's sake. She may regret doing so. In going through the process, Darryl forgets one important factor: are his own swimmers still active?
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In Rebecca realizing that she has entered the same obsessive pattern with Nathaniel as she did with Josh leading to her breaking up with him, Dr. Shin encourages Rebecca to transfer her energies and her resulting free time into volunteer work, which may end up in her finding some true passion in life. Rebecca's less than altruistic motives in that volunteering take a turn when she feels that her recent experiences can help save someone emotionally. In deciding what to do about this specific situation, she knows that she may also be hurting a friend yet again if she does decide to help that other someone. Meanwhile, Darryl learns of a risky way potentially to make a lot of money to purchase another expensive egg for the surrogacy, that risk which is only increased with crafty Mrs. Hernandez involved. Josh is exhibiting a newfound confidence to his friends in having a new job as a "paid volunteer fireman", and is looking really good in the process. He can only admit to Father Brah - and even at that not the entire story - that he is still floundering in life in not knowing what he really wants to do, his "paid volunteer fireman" position not being that wanted future. And White Josh and Nathaniel end up finding each other in wallowing in their respective break-ups, which they both tell themselves were mutual rather than the reality of them being the ones who were dumped. They have to figure out a way to make themselves feel better about the situation, while, also admitting, not wanting to turn to food and drink like most people to ruin their ripped bodies.
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Without telling Dr. Shin about her decision with respect to Darryl or the means to achieve it, Rebecca has started self-administered, self-directed hormone therapy to produce an egg for Darryl's surrogacy. Feeling good, Rebecca decides that it's time to return to work at the firm, which she figures she can do despite her mother having told Nathaniel that she quit the job on her behalf. Regardless, Nathaniel refuses to let Rebecca return to the firm, quit or be fired. Rebecca also learns that Nathaniel has moved on romantically having a new girlfriend named Mona, with who he has done things which hit Rebecca to her core. Incensed, Rebecca has a new enemy in Nathaniel, on who she vows revenge. Somewhat with her former co-workers behind her, Rebecca enacts a two-part plan to hit Nathaniel where she believes it will hurt him the most. Achieving both parts of the plan, especially the second half, may be more difficult than she anticipates. In the process, both Rebecca and Nathaniel will find that there indeed is a fine line between love and hate. Meanwhile, Heather is still trying to find out who she is in her post-academic life. She likes her job at Home Base but doesn't believe it will be her long term career. Complicating matters is that Hector wants to take their relationship to the next level, which she knows can't happen until she figures out who she is first, and until he moves out of his mother's house, his mother who he still considers his best friend. Either clarifying matters or making them more confusing, Heather, with mixed emotions, accepts Kevin's offer to enter into Home Base's corporate management training program, corporate, unlike the individual outlets, being corporate to the extreme which Heather is not.
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Big changes abound with Rebecca and her social circle. Rebecca is transitioning from in-patient sessions with Dr. Shin to out-patient sessions back with Dr. Akopian, who feels that this time around things are going to be different for Rebecca. But as Rebecca pours her heart out in the sessions most specifically about having sex and more sex with Nathaniel despite he being in a relationship with Mona, Dr. Akopian may begin to have her doubts, especially as Rebecca vows to call off the sex with Nathaniel at any time in wanting to seem non-commital and thus not obsessed with him. Heather is feeling happy in finally truly believing she has an adult life with her new job managing Home Base outlets, carrying Darryl's baby as his surrogate, and being in a committed co-habitational relationship with Hector. Paula, in her office battles with who she considers the trifecta of morons - Maya, Tim and Jim - calls in her school chum Sunil, who finished second in their class behind Paula, to work at the firm. White Josh is feeling a bit lost in West Covina in the demise of his relationship with Darryl, and thus contemplates going to Mexico to build houses for Habitat for Humanity. And Valencia's event planning business seems to be getting off the ground with who looks to be a lucrative new long term client named Beth. Fast forward eight months and the more things change, the more they may stay the same, especially with this group.
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By avoiding him, Rebecca has decided to stop having any sort of personal relationship with Nathaniel, she funneling her energies into being a stereotypical lonely old lady. Her alone time is short-lived when unexpectedly Trent reenters her life, he using whatever means at his disposal to become her boyfriend. He has to resort to blackmail, he still having such ammunition on her beyond the information contained in the envelope he gave to Josh before what was supposed to be Josh and Rebecca's wedding. Despite believing that she had truly turned a corner into normalcy, Rebecca feels she has no other choice but to find something with which to blackmail Trent in return. It may be difficult to convince her old partner in crime, Paula, to join her in this venture, Paula who too feels she has turned a corner and needs to be an upstanding citizen as she works her way toward becoming a full-fledged lawyer. Nathaniel, feeling Rebecca's silence and due partly to something he sees in the office, has to decide if he should move on and truly try to make his relationship with Mona work. If he does decide to do so, it may be difficult for him to convince Mona who, in turn, has felt Nathaniel's silence of late. Meanwhile, Valencia wants her and Beth's event planning business to move to the next level of solely dealing with A-listers despite not having enough B, C and D-listers to sustain the company. Reluctantly on Beth and Josh's urging, Valencia does eventually agree to plan a sweet sixteen party for the younger sister of a high school friend, Josh's interest being that he wants to DJ the event. The goings-on at the party may give Valencia a clearer picture of where she truly fits in in life.
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Heather and Darryl are preparing for the baby's delivery, each who approach the imminent big day in divergent and incompatible directions. In light of Rebecca unofficially breaking up with him, Nathaniel has decided to enter into a committed relationship with Mona, they moving into the next step of cohabitation, which they plan to announce to their friends - which will not include Rebecca - at a formal soirée. Both these items have the potential to be overshadowed by the fact that Rebecca has not been sleeping due to recurring nightmares of Trent still stalking her. Those nightmares are despite Trent having stated that he would leave her alone, Paula ensuring that Trent is keeping to his word. Because of what these nightmares signify to her, Rebecca decides to take decisive action to right what she considers the many wrongs she has committed in her life since she arrived in West Covina, regardless of the consequences to her. But the nightmares begin to take over her life as they transform into what seem to be more and more real - or are they truly real?
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Rebecca confronts the consequences of her guilty plea while an angry Nathaniel seeks solace in a retreat and Josh searches for answers.
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News of what Rebecca did, not only to Trent but to others as divulged in that courtroom testimony among other venues, has gone viral, she being coined the rooftop killer who, stated on various Internet sites, should remain locked up for all her bad deeds. As such, Rebecca, who has been trolling the comments section of such sites, feels that she can no longer face the world and has become agoraphobic, unable or unwilling to leave her house, even for things that she would normally go out of her way to do for fun. The fact that Rebecca's house was once the site of a series of gruesome murders comes into play in what Rebecca decides to do, that decision which is enabled especially by Valencia for her own reasons. Meanwhile, Nathaniel has finally returned to work after an extended absence to find that his father has been in the office several times, and has made the unilateral decision to institute the firm's "silent partner", Bert, as the managing partner in the absence of any of the other firm's lawyers ever being in the office. Being under Bert's control may be too much for Nathaniel to handle. And Darryl has joined a mommy's group in the park. As Stacy was the "mommy" when they were raising Madison, Darryl becomes overwhelmed by what he now believes he has to do to be the best mommy he can be. The most daunting task may be to provide something that most mommies can provide naturally that he cannot, namely breast milk.
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Rebecca's return officially to working as a lawyer at what is the recently renamed law firm of Mountaintop is pending the bar association's review following her incarceration. She plans to work there regardless while the review is underway, which is happy news especially for Paula as the firm's most important client, Wendy Legrand, has been up in arms over the quality of the legal service provided to her by the firm in Rebecca's absence. Nathaniel, however, has taken to a new tact in terms of dealing with seeing Rebecca again on a day in and day out basis at the office. Although being a lawyer is the only thing in her life that has provided her validation, Rebecca is told by Dr. Akopian that returning to work as a lawyer is not the only career choice she has, especially if she is searching for true fulfillment and happiness. Seeing something new in the lobby of Mountaintop's office building provides Rebecca a thought as to what an alternative life may be. Meanwhile, Josh is following Dr. Akopian's advice to be more introspective. How he takes that advice is to hit "the apps" in search of a true, loving relationship. In the process, Josh may become a little too introspective. Both Rebecca and Josh may come to the same conclusion for their respective situations. And Heather and Hector come to spur of the moment decision to deal with an emergency situation in Hector's life. The aftermath of that decision makes Heather and Hector reflect on their relationship and whether they are truly compatible despite being in love.
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Even though she sent him a thirteenth birthday present in part to make amends for how badly she's previously treated him, Rebecca is surprised to find her half-brother Tucker Bunch from Santa Fe on her doorstep, Rebecca having missed his mother's telephone call saying that he would be visiting on his own. What Rebecca is unaware of in taking Tucker in is that his mother did not tell her he was coming since she doesn't know - he supposed to be visiting Silas - in Tucker having a specific agenda for coming to Southern California. Using something he found hidden at his father's house, Tucker believes he's found the pot of gold into manipulating Rebecca into doing whatever he wants, she, in his manipulation, believing that she's found her kindred spirit. What happens between Rebecca and Tucker is somewhat affected by Sunil and Mrs. Hernandez both vying for the same paralegal overtime work, Sunil who enters into a secret agreement with Nathaniel to get that work. Meanwhile, Paula, in bringing Brendan and Tommy over to Rebecca's to hang out with Tucker, ends up spending the day with her two sons alone in an outing to an escape room. In their alone time in this isolated environment, Paula discovers how inattentive a mother she has been and in the process how little she knows about her sons.
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Now that Rebecca's life seems to be on track, she is dealt a blow when both Heather and Valencia, one half of her girl group, tell her that they are moving away, Heather and Hector who have bought a condo in El Segundo, and Valencia and Beth who have been offered jobs with one of the major event planning firms in New York City. Although Rebecca is sad about the news, her sadness doesn't stem specifically from the thought of missing her friends but rather something else about their lives. Rebecca takes specific action in adding to her group of friends with people she warply believes she is more copacetic at this stage in her life. Paula may not even be there for her as Paula is going through her own crisis. Having just bonded with her sons and liking them not only as sons but real human beings, she learns from Brendan that he too is going away having been accepted to work overseas in a volunteer position with a peace organization. Although happy for him, Paula wants more time with the Brendan she has just come to know and love, and as such does whatever she can to kibosh his trip. She thinks she may have found the answer hidden at the bottom of one of his drawers. And White Josh has reentered Darryl's life, they knowing that it can't be more than just friends despite what everyone around them wants and believes for them. Their friendship is made all the more complex as Josh starts thinking about dating again, specifically with Vic, another trainer at the gym.
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Three mismatched pairs end up going on three different road trips throughout various sections of the metropolitan Los Angeles area. Tired of self-reflection from "this" therapy or "that" therapy, Rebecca just wants a chill hang day with some friends at a barbecue joint in Irvine. The only person available is Darryl, who is by far the least chill hang person she knows, he who always wants to delve deeper into feelings, which is not what Rebecca needs today. The reason that Paula isn't available is that she has to study for exams. But before she can do that, at least in her own mind, she needs to set up her new home office with a lawyerly looking desk, one which she has found in San Bernardino. As it can't fit in their vehicle, she has hired a mover through an app. She is shocked to see that the person sent by the app is Josh, who is in an even more talkative phase of life due in part to being in therapy, chit-chat which Paula does not want. And Heather ends up saving Nathaniel, who she's never really liked, on the road. It isn't until Nathaniel gets in her car that she learns that he wants her to drive him to Santa Monica, which ends up being more of a demand than a friendly request. By the time each of these pairs part company, they will either have driven each other crazy or come to understand the other better.
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Staying with Valencia and Beth, Rebecca heads back to New York as her mother is receiving an honor from a Jewish charity group, Naomi who seems to be most proud that she has convinced her longtime friend, Elayne Boosler, to make the presentation at the banquet. In Rebecca's vow to be honest to a fault - which includes posting a detailed history of her bad deeds on her online dating profile - she plans to tell Naomi everything about her recent life, including the jail term and almost killing Trent, all in an effort to have a healthier relationship with her. While some of this information may be easy to divulge, it is one specific piece of information which may be the most difficult to tell her mother. Meanwhile, Josh, having moved out of Hector's mother's house and staying at the Y until he finds a more permanent living situation, is house-sitting for Rebecca while she's away. Josh quickly learns what few practical living skills he has in never having really lived on his own. And Nathaniel is making an effort to be a nicer person, the people at the office who are less than trusting that he doesn't have a nefarious motive for what they consider his odd behavior. Nathaniel's actions may affect Paula the most, she who has agreed to do Rebecca's pro bono legal work at the women's prison while Rebecca's gone, and who is doing this work while she's on the law firm's dime.
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Partly through a dream, Rebecca comes to the realization that the current unease she has been feeling is horniness, she thus needing to have sex but not with any of her exes. She believes that the person most suitable is Jason, the guy who she dated once years ago and has reconnected with on an online dating site. Rebecca and Jason have had one obstacle after another in actually reconnecting in person, but she believes the stars are now in alignment for it to happen. They continue to have problems, not so much in reconnecting, but rather in having sex for one reason or another. What's worse for Rebecca is that the entire scenario in her mind is playing out like plotless Cats, her least favorite musical. Meanwhile, White Josh is trying to help Greg over a current issue of his own, and suggests he work out at the gym to blow off a little steam. Greg, who has never been a gym bunny, ends up making a new friend at the gym, a potential new workout buddy. White Josh, seeing what is happening from afar, knows that this friendship is a trainwreck waiting to happen, he who has to decide how to handle it before the wreck actually happens. And Darryl has returned to work to find that he has been replaced as the office best friend to everyone by Bert.
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Wanting Hebby to bond with her biological mother and needing some help as his mommy's group has set him up on a blind date, Darryl asks Rebecca to babysit, to which Rebecca reluctantly agrees, that reluctance in not being a baby person. Babysitting night ends up coinciding with Greg, at the spur of the moment, wanting to come over, supposedly to say what he didn't say last he saw Rebecca when he, Nathaniel and Jason stormed off together in her past/present with all three and Josh being somewhat exposed. Rebecca has a split in focus, really wanting to hear what Greg has to tell her, but knowing her first priority in this situation is a crying Hebby, who can probably sense Rebecca's nervousness in babysitting. This babysitting duty and Darryl's date mean that they cannot attend Paula's games night. What Paula didn't tell them or her other attending guests is that the party is really her graduation party, she not wanting anyone to know the real reason in not liking that kind of focus on herself. The party has the potential to go off the rails and thus ruin Paula's self-celebration as issues arise between randomly selected games partners, Josh and Nathaniel who have never liked each other, and Valencia who has for some reason always been mean to Hector who in return is afraid of her.
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In her current bliss with Greg, Rebecca has avoided going to therapy of any type, whether it be the one-on-one sessions with Dr. Akopian or Dr. Shin, or group therapy. The latest item on that upward high with Greg is convincing him to go to what she considers the most romantic place on Earth, Raging Waters water park where she has yet to go, Greg agreeing despite he not only not being a water park person, but not being a park person, period. When Rebecca does return to therapy in a session with Dr. Akopian, Dr. Akopian not only tries to convince Rebecca to go back into a regular course of therapy, but broaches a subject of her comprehensive therapy that Rebecca doesn't even want to touch. Following her day out with Greg at Raging Waters, Rebecca will discover her path in not comprehensively dealing with her psychological issues. Meanwhile, Paula believes that she can do it all in taking her turn at the pro bono work at the prison, doing her regular job, studying for the bar exam and taking care of her family, all the while she admits she is not feeling well, the major symptom being her body temperature skyrocketing. By those that she knows that have gone through it before her, Paula may not want to believe that she is at that stage of life. When Paula finally does see her gynecologist, she may be surprised by the diagnosis.
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Rebecca is back in therapy which now includes taking prescription anti-depressants, a side effect being feeling tired. Regardless, Rebecca feels that she needs to be there for Paula following Paula's heart attack. A comment by AJ and viewing Paula's situation leads to Rebecca feeling the need to strive for whatever her dream, which she knows is not Rebetzel's. She has to figure out what that dream is. In addition, she and Greg have not yet been able to reconnect following their fight regarding their day at Raging Waters. Paula, whose recovery is going well, is determined to make it out of the hospital in time to take the bar exam, which if she doesn't means that she will have to wait another half year until it is next held. Making it out officially may not happen, which if the case means she has to decide if to sneak out risking the insurance not paying for her hospital stay. What Paula and the girl group decide has an unintended consequence on Rebecca. Darryl, while in the waiting room to see Paula, meets April, who is also waiting to see a patient. Darryl and April quickly discover that the other may truly be his/her soul mate, but they learn something that places an obstacle to any sort of relationship happening. And Josh, Greg and Nathaniel, all who have now come to the realization that they have feelings for Rebecca, get into a situation where they are forced to spend time alone together. Will they be able to spend that time together civilly, especially as Josh learns some further information about his "friend" Greg?
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Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) tries out for the local community theater, while Paula (Donna Lynne Champlin) is courted by various law firms.
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Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) gets a call to help her old nemesis (guest star Rachel Grate) out of a complicated situation. Meanwhile, Nathaniel (Scott Michael Foster), Josh (Vincent Rodriguez III) and Greg (Skylar Astin) attempt to deal with their competing feelings for Rebecca.
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Rebecca is about to go on the three dates individually with Josh, Nathaniel and Greg, the three men vying for her ultimate affections, she promising to make her choice between the three after the dates by next Thursday, Valentine's Day. An exasperated Dr. Akopian gives her okay to the idea within certain parameters. Acting as the mediator, White Josh sets some ground rules for the dates, so as not to give any of the three an unfair inherent advantage. Within the rules, Greg feels the most lost in not being good at anything he feels is contrived. But guessing that his competitors will be going all out, Greg gets sucked into trying to find his advantage within the situation. Meanwhile, the rest of their mutual friends, led by the girl group, end up having a stake in what happens in Rebecca's love life and thus how each of the three dates goes. Meanwhile, Paula, settled into life in her new job, still feels that she can excel in being both a lawyer and a mom and wife. She needing to sign up for a duty among those listed for Tommy's baseball banquet may demonstrate if Paula can be all things to all people, which in turn potentially affects one of the dates.
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It's Valentine's Day morning, and despite telling Josh, Nathaniel and Greg that she would tell them her decision by the end of the day, Rebecca is no more clear about her future with any of the three of them than she was before the three dates. In a last minute "meeting" with a usually more than accommodating "Dr. Akopian", Rebecca sees that she can be happy with any of the three but that she still has an inherent sadness about her no matter who she chooses. In that same session, Rebecca discovers that she has to answer a certain question about herself, the meaning of that question and a possible answer clarified in a subsequent meeting with Paula, who is going through her own internal struggles at work, she who loves her new job but feels that something vitally important is missing in it. The outcome of what Rebecca ultimately decides on this day is shown exactly one year into the future.
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